In fact, Pitt stated in a 2013 interview with Esquire that he often felt the need to withdraw since he had such a hard time identifying people by their appearance.
“That’s why I stay at home,” he explained. What causes the condition? Individuals diagnosed with prosopagnosia often fall into one of two groups.
Either they develop the condition over time or they are born with it. Experts speculate that the condition may run in families.
Although estimates show that up to one in 50 people may experience some lifetime version of it. Research “indicates that congenital, or lifelong, prosopagnosia is less common,” Blum said.
Children born with the disease “don’t seem to have any visible structural abnormality” in their brains, according to Cleveland Clinic general neurology director Andrey Stojic.
Notably, because congenital prosopagnosia patients do not exhibit any visible brain abnormalities, clinicians are unable to fully determine what causes it.
